Lafayette to be specific. It isn't San Francisco but it'll do.
Lafayette is just past Oakland through the Caldecott tunnel in the East Bay. I mention the Caldecott tunnel b/c that is pretty much where the temperature drops by at least 10 degrees from one side to another. San Francisco tends to remain around 65 degrees (give or take) all year round, while the East Bay is much warmer during the summer and much colder during the winter. That will present more of a challenge for me who will live in one and work in the other...hence why layering clothes is so important in the bay area. It's all about the micro climates out here!
The good news is that we were able to find a place to rent in or around the area that we are hoping to buy in next year. The dogs will have a really big yard to run around and I've got a pizza place just down the street! Plus many of our close friends live out there so we'll be able to see and hang with them more! And to be fair, even though I feel like we are moving to the suburbs, my total commute time will only increase by about 10 minutes while Mike's will decrease by about 45 minutes...so all in all, a good decision.
The downside, we lose our view. For those of you who didn't visit us when we lived in the city, here's what you missed...
View from our balcony (straight ahead) of Downtown San Francisco, the Bay Bridge (and bay water), The Mission District, and Noe Valley:
View from our balcony (to the right) of Giants Stadium, Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill, South Bay, Noe Valley, and The Mission District:
View from our balcony (to the left) of Noe Valley and Diamond Heights:
You cannot beat these views! We spent many mornings and evenings just staring out our windows. Sometimes I'd play games with myself and pick out all the pink houses, or yellow houses, or blue houses...or sometimes I'd try to focus on the trees or the streets or the fog rolling in and taking over the city. There's nothing like the fog that rolls over the city by the bay. On July 4th or January 1st (or when the Giants win) we could watch firework shows from our balcony. And this weekend when the blue angels were in town, we didn't have to fight traffic to the marina area for the show, we just sat on some chairs on our balcony!
I will truly miss living in San Francisco. Who knows...maybe we'll find ourselves back in the city at some point. A girl can dream right?
D-Day: October 25th.
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i'm sad i won't get to see "the place with the great view", but i really do want to come visit soon. maybe in the springtime...
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